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Re: IDLDE linux cannot create workspace [message #78297 is a reply to message #78296]

Fri, 04 November 2011 13:05

Jeremy Bailin
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Registered: April 2008

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On 11/4/11 2:48 PM, David Fanning wrote:
> Jeremy Bailin writes:
>
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I never use the DE, so I have never encountered this, but one of my
>> students is trying to run it for IDL 8.0 on a Linux box (I think it's
>> RHEL, not sure what version) and we keep getting the following error on
>> startup:
>>
>> Workspace in use or cannot be created, choose a different one.
>>
>> It is not actually in use - if you give it a completely new directory,
>> it will pause for a minute and then give the same error ad infinitum.
>>
>> Command line works fine:
>>
>> IDL> print, !version
>> { x86_64 linux unix linux 8.0 Jun 18 2010 64 64}
>>
>>
>> Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.
>
> Have you tried deleting the workbench config and preferences
> folders in the .idl/itt directory? Couldn't hurt, as long as
> you are willing to start over.
>
> I'm not sure where you find these on LINIX. Probably in
> your ~/name directory.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
>

I tried completely deleting .idl but it doesn't help.

-Jeremy.

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		Re: IDLDE linux cannot create workspace By: Jeremy Bailin on Sat, 05 November 2011 21:26
		Re: IDLDE linux cannot create workspace By: Brian Wolven on Fri, 04 November 2011 13:37
		Re: IDLDE linux cannot create workspace By: David Fanning on Fri, 04 November 2011 13:30
		Re: IDLDE linux cannot create workspace By: Jeremy Bailin on Fri, 04 November 2011 13:05
		Re: IDLDE linux cannot create workspace By: Jeremy Bailin on Fri, 04 November 2011 13:03
		Re: IDLDE linux cannot create workspace By: Brian Wolven on Fri, 04 November 2011 12:20
		Re: IDLDE linux cannot create workspace By: David Fanning on Fri, 04 November 2011 11:48

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